Weaving Community & Transformation through Authentic Connection
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All beings in the Web of Life are constantly weaving with each other in the evolution of the Whole. Human Beings have the capacity to bring this weaving into conscious awareness and, through the intelligence of the heart and body, contribute to as well as be nourished by the Web of Life. When we weave with and through our deeper, somatic knowing, we invite new intelligences to arise through us.
Community is the whole Web of Life, all Beings. Diversity and Inclusivity allow this Web to be expansive and transformative. Transformation unfolds in allowing our deeper heart-knowing to shine the light and lead the way. Authenticity allows our connections and actions to be be grounded in truth and opens a path for us to weave a return to our natural place within the Web of Life.
The time is now for us to come together
So many aspects of our world are amplifying divisiveness, and social media platforms that once helped to connect people now seem to be intensifying reactivity and polarization.
Essential threads of mutual respect, compassion, and understanding are being torn apart, exacerbating the challenges we are facing.
It is a crucial time for each of us to play our part in reweaving the ties that support us all by engaging in more healthy ways of communicating - encouraging authenticity, vulnerability, inclusivity, and mutual empowerment.
Mutual understanding and willingness to learn from one another will deeply, positively impact our lives and communities.
With the rapid increase in depression and stress in a climate of intensifying social divisiveness, we need to create more safe, supportive, and inclusive spaces for connecting, communicating, collaborating, and coaction.
The AWOVEN Community
AWOVEN is a brave and safe container for deepening connections, healing, and understanding between people from all backgrounds, ways of life, ethnicities, genders, beliefs, values, and identities. It is a diverse, supportive, and healing space rather than insular, reactive, and divisive as much of the world around us seems to be.
As winter comes to an end in the northern hemisphere, it may feel as if spring has arisen with turmoil and turbulence, and what is happening in the world may seem to be unprecedented and upending so much of what we have assumed to be norms.
While there are actions that many of us can take, shifts we can make in how we engage with the world, there is also so much uncertainty and it can feel as if there is so much that we “need” to respond to that we end up feeling muddled and mired about what
ways we can be most impactful.
And this uncertainty and confusion can lead to feeling frozen or to feeling that no matter what we do, it won’t be enough… to feeling helpless…
We can allow ourselves to, like so many others, be swept up in the tumult and uncertainty, to capitulate to the fear… to the doomscrolling… to the paralysis…
Or, we can invite ourselves to ground, take a deep breath, and feel more deeply into why we might be feeling discombobulated by what is happening externally.
In so doing, we might be invited to investigate and question whether there may be unresolved and unintegrated places within us that are actually the deeper roots of what is confusing/disempowering/freezing us?
While a good part of these explorations and inquiries can be done on our own, such transformative and impactful work can also unfold in community, in intentional gatherings with others, when we create a safe, inclusive, compassionate and loving container to witness, support, and celebrate each other.
In community, there are possibilities to:
• Find the courage to meet what we may not have been able to alone
• Be inspired by the courage of what others share with us
• Know that we are in turn being inspirations for others
• Learn understandings & perspectives that open new pathways & possibilities within us
• Be nourished & expanded in ways that only being in community with others allows
are intended to offer such a space for folks from
all over the world and all walks of life.
As we relaunch our gatherings, we are opening them to all
AWOVEN members for the next two months FREE!
Each session is a Facilitated Experience that will:
Present a specific theme of exploring challenging issues or learning and cultivating communication skills.
Awaken new ways of understanding and relating with others while facing the ongoing struggles of our changing world.
Foster greater acceptance of and appreciation for our differences and the unique gifts we all have to offer.
Offer opportunities to cultivate and grow skills for more meaningful, compassionate, and impactful communication.
Deepen our capacities for understanding, empathy, and connection.
Expand our abilities to truly listen, respond with conscious intentionality, and explore differing viewpoints so that we grow and evolve together.
Courses & Events
AWOVEN's members will also be able to participate in other courses and events offered exclusively to the AWOVEN community.
Every member will be encouraged to begin their AWOVEN experience by taking our FREE Foundation Course, which will offer tools, skills, and understandings for healthy communication that reflect our
While some of the courses and programs that will be offered in AWOVEN will be free, others will be for a fee to support its operation and so that the Course Facilitators, Moderators, and Founders who invest their time, energy, creativity, and passion in providing these offerings can be supported in their lives. AWOVEN will strive to generously share these fees with all those who will part of creating its programs and will reach out to support organizations that are uplifting their communities.
Autism is still poorly-understood and unseen by many. We believe that the dominant culture we are in, created from a conditioning of separation and objectification, contributes greatly to the challenges that people with autism face and curtails the expressions of their unique gifts while people of color and those in other marginalized communities with autism face even greater obstacles. After paying back its initial capital expenses, AWOVEN will donate 1% of all its revenue to the Autistic People of Color Fund and is seeking ways to support this organization and its work through our community:
https://autismandrace.com/autistic-people-of-color-fund
AWOVEN’s founders are based in Hawai'i, a land taken from its original people who are still denied control over resources, land, and water for which they have legal rights. The mission of the Kimekeo Foundation is to preserve and perpetuate Hawai‘i’s unique culture, its language, people and environment for the benefit of Maui’s people and generations yet to come. Its founder, Kimokeo Kapahulehua, has uplifted people in so many ways, from preserving Native Hawaiian forests, to revitalizing an ancient Hawaiian fishpond, to educating thousands of youth about the Hawaiian culture and its practices, to raising money for cancer survivors. Kimokeo has touched the lives and hearts of an immeasurable number of people with the expectation that they only take the aloha that they have received from him and share it with others. After paying back its initial capital expenses, AWOVEN will donate 1% of all its revenue to the Kimekeo Foundation and is seeking ways to support this organization and its work through our community:
Another one of AWOVEN's offerings
to the community is a FREE
Sharing & Celebration Circle
on the fourth Thursday of every month from
3pm - 4:30pm Hawai'i Time
9am - 10:30am Friday Taiwan Time
The intention of these online gatherings is to utilize the acts of sharing about our challenges and celebrating our triumphs with each other as practices that have powerfully coactive interpersonal and intrapersonal impacts for deep growth and expansive transformation.
This is a space for us to share and be supported for what is most vulnerable; to inspire each other with and celebrate each other for what blessings and triumphs have arisen for us; and to deeply appreciate and be nourished by each other for who we are. Each circle will have a focal theme such as facing fears, resolving conflicts, moving through breakdowns to breakthroughs, generous listening, empathetic communication, dissipating drama, living in our essence rather than in persona. . . and more. . .
• Cultivates and inspires relationships of depth, integrity, diversity, and service.
• Offers opportunities to learn, grow, connect and evolve as a collective, utilizing the group field to expand consciousness and foster healing.
• Welcomes all emotions and creates a space for them to be felt and witnessed.
• Offers tools to identify deeper feelings and unmet needs and express them in effective ways.
• Is a fertile practice ground to cultivate and grow skills for more meaningful, compassionate, and impactful communication and deeper connections.
• Is a transparent space that honors consent and invites curiosity, learning, and growth.
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